Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Looking back over its long history, the U.S.L.T.A. celebrated its Diamond Jubilee by naming the alltime first ten U.S. tennis players: 1) William T. Tilden II, 2) J. Donald Budge, 3) John A. Kramer, 4) William M. Johnston, 5) H. Ellsworth Vines Jr., 6) Richard A. Gonzales, 7) Maurice E. McLoughlin, 8) William A. Larned, 9) R. N. Williams II, 10) Robert L. Riggs...
...Play's the Thing. In New Haven, Conn., arrested after police found 3,021 lottery tickets in his home, turned up 1,144 °f the betting slips in the refrigerator, Ellsworth Nixon, 59, protested: "I collect old lottery bets as some people collect old stamps, old coins and pictures of baseball players...
...Running under top weight of 130 Ibs. and held so snugly by Jockey Willie Shoemaker that he galloped most of the race with his head twisted sideways, Rex Ellsworth's great chestnut colt Swaps breezed home to win the Broward Handicap at Florida's Gulfstream Park by 2lengths, set a world's record (1:39.6) for the one-mile 70-yd. distance...
...Finishing fast in the stretch, Rex Ellsworth's brown colt, Terrang, half-brother to 1955 Kentucky Derby Winner Swaps, caught Llangollen Farm's Social Climber, won the $158,800 Santa Anita Derby by more than a length, and probably earned a chance to carry Ellsworth's colors in this year's Kentucky Derby...
...Cleveland university conferred the degree on Sunday at the dedication of the new I. F. Freiberger Library. At the same time, Ralph E. Ellsworth, director of libraries at Iowa State, was awarded the Doctor of Laws degree...